Re: [R] Exponential Smoothing: Forecast package

2010-06-28 Thread phani kishan
values > to make sure you don't end up in a local minimum. > > I know of no comparison just between Holt and Brown - but you could use the > above methods and the M3 Competition dataset (in Mcomp) to look how the two > methods compare on a (more or less) benchmark dataset. > >

[R] Forecast Package: MAPE as criteria

2010-06-28 Thread phani kishan
a function for myself, which is the best way to go about it? Thank, Phani -- A. Phani Kishan 3rd Year B.Tech Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering IIT MADRAS Ph: +919962363545 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] __ R-help@r-project.o

[R] Exponential Smoothing: Forecast package

2010-06-28 Thread phani kishan
any study comparing the accuracy of brown's double exponential model versus holt's exponential model? Thanks in advance, Phani -- A. Phani Kishan 3rd Year B.Tech Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering IIT MADRAS Ph: +919962363545 [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ___

[R] Forecast Package in R: auto.arima function

2010-06-28 Thread phani kishan
some light on the above issues. Also if I want my final model to be a composite one involving expoential smoothing and autro-regressive terms what is the best mode of action? Thanks and regards, Kishan -- A. Phani Kishan 3rd Year B.Tech Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering IIT MADRAS

Re: [R] Confused: Looping in dataframes

2010-06-25 Thread phani kishan
t) in the values of parameters from applying the above function as opposed to lapply. Why could it be so?? Phani -- A. Phani Kishan 3rd Year B.Tech Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering IIT MADRAS Ph: +919962363545 [[alternative HTML versio

Re: [R] Confused: Looping in dataframes

2010-06-25 Thread phani kishan
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 1:54 PM, Paul Hiemstra wrote: > On 06/25/2010 10:02 AM, phani kishan wrote: > >> Hey, >> I have a data frame x which consists of say 10 vectors. I essentially want >> to find out the best fit exponential smoothing for each of the vectors. >

[R] Confused: Looping in dataframes

2010-06-25 Thread phani kishan
so want to be able to extract data like coef's, errors (MAPE,MSE etc.) Thanks and regards, Phani -- A. Phani Kishan 3rd Year B.Tech Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering IIT MADRAS Ph: +919962363545 [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Re: [R] Applying forecast functions to columns in a data frame

2010-06-22 Thread phani kishan
t; > Bert Gunter > Genentech Nonclinical Biostatistics > > -Original Message- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r-project.org] > On > Behalf Of phani kishan > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2010 8:10 AM > To: David Winsemius > Cc: r-help@r-pr

Re: [R] Applying forecast functions to columns in a data frame

2010-06-22 Thread phani kishan
t earlier today that Gabor Grothendieck (who, > I suspect, could comment knowledgeably) mentioned the latter's use in a > similar context: > > https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-help/2010-June/243252.html > > >> On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:26 AM, phani kishan > >wrote: >>

[R] Applying forecast functions to columns in a data frame

2010-06-22 Thread phani kishan
Hey, I have a list of 30 odd time-series (products) in columns of a data-frame. I want to apply time-series forecasting functions across all the columns of the data-frame in order to determine which is the best model to use. How do I go about this? Phani [[alternative HTML version deleted